Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Sep 2003 12:37:28 -0400 | From | Kurt Wall <> | Subject | Re: Scaling noise |
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Quoth Larry McVoy:
[SMP hits memory latency wall]
> It's called asymptotic behavior. After a while you can look at the graph > and see that more CPUs on the same memory doesn't make sense. It hasn't > made sense for a decade, what makes anyone think that is changing?
Isn't this what NUMA is for, then?
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